The Penn's Grove record., 1887-12-10
OF THE WEEK.

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"A telegram from Ishpenning,
Michigan, says the situation at the
Calumet and Hecla Mines is growing
very serious. Carbonic acid gas and
steam are now being sent down two
shafts Of the Calumet and two shafts
Of the Hecla Mines. The mine al
thorities refuse to give the reports OF
the temperature at any of the shafts.
There is talk Of flooding the mine with
water, but 1t is said that this will not
be done until all other measures fail.
News was received in Louisville
early on the morning Of the I'd of the
partial destruction Of E~minence, Ken.
lucky, by fire. At last accounts about
one-third OF the business portion Of the
place had been destroyed, and the fire
was still burning. The FIRE began in
Duncan's jewelry store, and spread to
Miller's grocery, the Town Hall.
Moody Il Proctor's drug store, MARI &
Brewers lumber and coal yard, O'Con-
nell's butcher shop and a large carriage
factory. All except the latter were
completely destroyed, and the flames
were rapidly consuming 1t at last &C.
counts. with mapr 'ther places In i'm
mediate dange~
a u. sspatch from San
Francis Mcdonald, the
banker 20 gave $1,000 worth
OF DIANE her lover. Seneca Au-
gustus { I'm, an insurance agent, and
other property, amounting in all to
$40. has sued her father-in- law for
$500, 900 for alternating the affections of
her husband. Swain is still under
examination in the Police Court
charged with having forged M cDGnald's
name to the $4,000 worth of railroad
bonds which Mrs. Mcdonald stole
from her father-in-law and sold to SEM
at0r Leland Stanford.
"A slight fire occurred In the dwell.
ling Of Mrs. Alexander Mcbride, In
Schenectady, New York, on the even
ing Of the lat, and during its progress
some n entered the house and stole
$500 In money and valuable dia-
monds. The fire was the work of an
incendiary.
lin Reading, Penna., Mary Lloyd,
an orphan girl employed In q dry goods
store, vas discarded by Howard Potter,
q wealthy young man to whom she was
engaged. On the evening Of the 9th
ult., he called at her. house. when she
threw q glass Of vitrol in his face,
burning the flesh and disfguring him
for life. Charles E. Horn was arrested
on the I'd, on suspicion of having
thrown vitrol on Mamie Meehan, in
Haverhill, Massachusetts, on the 18th
ult.
Mrs. John Evans, wife of an in
dustrious miner in Scranton, Penna.,
killed her 5-year-O old sen with q hatchet,
on the morning of the ID, Just after
her husband had left home for his
work. She was prevented from killing
her 4-year-Old daughter by neighbors.
She Is insane, and was sent to the In
sane Department Of the Scranton Poor
house.
George shirle, an avowed Anarch-
list was on the I'd fined $3.50 In Chicago,
on charges Of disorderly conduct and
carrying concealed weapons. While
slightly intoxicated he attempted to
shoot a policeman, who had undertaken
to assist him across q slippery pave
ment. Shirle said in court that he was
formerly employed rs a Waterman by
the Wisconsin Central Road, but wal
tired of working for capitalists, and
would not rest till he had murdered some
policemen, beings whom he considered
the most obnoxious of all the hirelings
Of monopoly.
"A telegram from Pierre, Dakota.
says Jumping Dog. the Indian who
fired the Cheynne Agency a few days
ago, was captured on the evening OF
the LIST. On the I'd be attacked his
guards and stabbed two of them to
death with q pair of shears and then
committed suicide. Paul Bloohm, aged
IS years, part owner of the Delmonico
Hotel, in Leavenworth, Kansas, kissed
his daughter and her child goodbye on
the evening OF the Sd and then walked
into the yard of the hotel and shot
himielf dead. A man named Howe,
living in st. Paul, Minnesota, shot and
killed his wife on the Sd. He gave
himself up. He claims that he was
cleaning the gun when it went off &C.
cidentally. Officers who are working on
the Turner's Falls. Massachusetts,, mur-
der case, claim to have clues which
strongly implicate young Randall, the
son Of the victim. George w. Ritter,
an elderly man, was arrested in Cin-
cinnati recently, for embeZzlement
from his employers. While waiting for
a hearing in the Probate Court on the
Sd, he borrowed a knife fun a friend
to pare his nails. He opened 1t and
made an effort to cut the arteries of his
arms. His friends caught his hands
and with some difficulty wrested the
knife from him.
"A Missouri Pacific passenger train
was wrecked near Kyle, Texas, on the I
evening Of the Sd, by striking a COW. |
Charles Wood, yard engineer at Aus
tin. was killed. and two other train /
men were badly injured. BY the
spreading of the rails on the Balti-
more and Ohio road, near Indepen-
dence, Ohio, on the 4th, a locomotive
and two freight cars were thrown down |
an embankment. The engineer, George |
s. Smith, Of Syracuse, was killed, aud
the fireman, MI. Buckles, was fatally
scalded.
Giuseppe de Paul Soggio and his
wife, Rose, died in New York on the
4tb. Giuseppe was a rag picker, and
much of the food that he and his wife |
consumed was gathered by him in ash
barrels and cutters. On the afternoon
of the Sd the man found a white, |
dough-like substance in an ash can on
the Bowery, and, thinking 1t might be
edible, took it home. On the morning
of the 4tb his wife prepared the stuff
in pancakes, and both partook OF it.
WtIh!n q short time they were seized
with a~gonizing pains in the stomach,
and after three hours awful suffering
they died. The Coroner will hold an
inquest.
Nellie C0e, q young woman who
lived In the Amsterdam flats, in New
York, is supposed to have committed
suicide on the 4th. She was to have
been married this week to Andrew
Pickel, a saloon keeper. On the even
ing OF the Sd Mr.. Picket called on Miss
Coe, and, as she was feeling unwell,
she asked him to remain In the build |